Politico calls tonight “Romney’s toughest debate.” Mitt Romney has a clear-eyed and self-aware view of his chances in the final debate Monday, according to top advisers: It will be almost impossible to win, since the debate is focused exclusively on foreign policy, a strength for President Barack Obama. This view isn’t merely about expectations-setting. Romney’s top advisers authentically worry that the swing voters they need to woo care little about foreign affairs right now. And, even if they did, the differences between the two men on many of the highest-profile issues — ending the Afghan war and the bloodshed in Syria — are too slight to draw sharp distinctions. Even if Romney does bring his A game, Obama joked last week about his debate strategy for winning the showdown in Florida: ‘Spoiler alert: We got bin Laden.’ It’s not a joke that he said it, or that he uses that conquest to maximum political advantage in debates and speeches to show strength and achievement.”
The campaign went up with a Web video focused on Colorado. “Success is when you build people up,” says Bob Sakata, Owner Sakata Farms. He adds, “With all these uncertainties, we as entrepreneurs cannot make a long-range plan of investments moving forward. But with Mr. Romney’s philosophy I think that will immediately change, that we would have confidence in leadership.” More: "What did I think about President Obama four years ago? Why, I have to admit that I was rather impressed with him. And I have to be very honest with you today, there is no real meat to his conversation anymore.”
Could a tie or electoral/popular vote split happen? The Wall Street Journal: “The odds of a spilt decision are small: It has happened just three times in U.S. presidential history, most recently when George W. Bush edged out Al Gore in 2000, despite falling 540,530 votes shy of Mr. Gore’s vote haul. But the makings of a split outcome are clearly there, due in part to a range of factors peculiar to this election.”
